Workshop
Winter Workshops 2023
14 Feb 2023 – 25 Feb 2023
RBSA Gallery
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Workshop
Monoprint and Collage Workshop
23 Feb 2023
Regular hours
- Thu, 23 Feb
- 11:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
£65
£60 for RBSA Friends, Members, Associates, Graduate Artists, and students.
Address
- 4 Brook Street
- Birmingham
England - B3 1SA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 101 bus runs from Birmingham City Centre down Newhall Street. For timetables and bus stops, please check National Express West Midlands.
- The RBSA Gallery is in walking distance from St Paul's Metro tram stop
- The RBSA Gallery is in walking distance from Snow Hill and Birmingham New Street train stations
Event map
In this Monoprint and Collage Workshop create an exciting print using Mono Printing, collage and other media. Using their own design or image, participants will start with torn/cut paper to make a simple collage, which will be overlayed with their own mono print design.
About
Course aims and skills/knowledge to be taught
- Create an A4 design suitable for monoprinting
- Learn about materials and equipment used for mono printing with collage on paper
- Learn to monoprint onto paper using water washable oil-based inks
- Learn to carefully register monoprints with a layer of collage underneath
- The correct materials and equipment used for monoprinting onto paper
- Where to buy materials and equipment used for monoprinting onto paper
- Produce unique monoprints with collage on paper
- Learn how to add other media on top of monoprints with collage
Course outline for the day
Morning activity
Brief outline of the day including health and safety information.
- Quick introduction to monoprinting, with a wide range of examples of completed work.
- Demonstration of how to trace/draw images and designs ready for mono printing.
- How to add collage to paper, carefully registered to line up correctly with intended overlying mono print.
- Participants will draw/trace designs suitable for monoprinting and using papers suitable for collage glue this to their paper ready for printing on top of
Afternoon activity
- Participants will set up ready to monoprint their designs/images over the top of their collages.
- They will be shown the correct amount of ink to prepare and use for monoprinting and the equipment used for monoprinting.
- Participants will create their unique monoprints.
- Discussion with tutor to decide whether to add further media on top of monoprints with collage.
- Participants will then be able to discuss and assess further images they would like to use.
- Participants will then repeat process to create further images
- How to clean and maintain equipment will be covered.
- Short feedback session at end of session to assess and discover what has been learnt and enjoyed.
After you book a place you will be emailed the full workshop outline which includes the material list and a list of the materials provided by the workshop.
To book a place, either visit the RBSA Gallery website or call us directly on 0121 236 4353.
